A rare spine metastasis from an invasive esthesioneuroblastoma: a case report

作者:Xie, Li; Mei, Rui; Yan, Jing; Zhu, Lijing; Liu, Baorui; Hu, Wenjing*
来源:International Journal of Clinical and Experimental Medicine, 2018, 11(5): 5200-5205.

摘要

A 66-year-old male patient presented with repeated epistaxis and sustaining nasal congestion was diagnosed with an ENB (Kadish grade C) after a nasal neoplasm biopsy in Oct 10, 2014. As an unresectabe tumor assessed by CT scan, the patient received radiotherapy with prescribed dose of 40 Gy/20 f and one course of chemotherapy of VP-16 and cisplatin from Nov 2nd, 2014 to Sep 5th, 2014. However, he refused further treatment due to the release of symptom. Then disease progressed rapidly and the patient died of lung metastasis in May 27th, 2015. In Kadish grade C, 5 Year survival of ENB patient was 41-47%. The uniqueness of this case was after active chemoradiotherapy the patient died in 8 months since he was diagnosed.